Siobhan Barco and Anin Luo

Siobhan Barco and Anin Luo were both selected for the 2023 American Society for Legal History (ASLH) Graduate Student Research Colloquium, which brings together eight graduate students to discuss research projects with each other and ASLH-affiliated scholars. Admission to the program is highly competitive.

Siobhan Barco will discuss her project, "Women, Power, and the Legal News, 1830-1930." Anin Luo will discuss her project, "Empathizing beyond Humanity: The 1970s Emergence of Personhood for Animals and the Environment."

R. Isabela Morales

R. Isabela Morales received the Tom Watson Brown Book Award for her book, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (Oxford, 2022). The prize committee commended her for writing "a model of microhistory, using the Townsend's unique circumstances to illuminate broad questions about race, color, and liberty."

Morales is the Editor of the Princeton & Slavery Project and the Education & Exhibit Manager at the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM). She received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 2019.